海頓: 弦樂四重奏, 作品76, 1-3號 明暗對比四重奏 Chiaroscuro Quartet / Haydn - String Quartets Op. 76, Nos 1-3

海頓:弦樂四重奏,作品76, 1~3號(G大調/d小調/C大調) 
明暗對比四重奏

明暗對比四重奏在瑞典BIS唱片公司的首張專輯是備受好評的海頓(太陽)四重奏,作品20 (SACD2158). 英國古典音樂雜誌Strad評論’最細微精緻的古樂器演奏’. 四重奏作品20被公認為是該音樂類別的一個里程碑. 當明暗對比四重奏回歸錄製海頓作品時, 是以從1796年當他是64歲時開始寫最後的六首一組四重奏為主題.

帶有作曲家標誌的六首弦樂四重奏, 作品76是海頓最有名的幾組四重奏之一. 沒有其他18世紀的弦樂四重奏是如此的多樣性, 或者說與當代的規範是如此的不相關聯. 用海頓同時代的朋友查爾斯.伯尼(Charles Burney)的話來說”這些作品充滿了發明, 火焰, 有品味和新奇的效果”. 在這兩集中第一片的CD中, 我們聽到的是六首中的前三首, 包含第2號四重奏(五度), 因為在開始後下降完全五度而得此名稱. 在這一組中, 也許是海頓全部四重奏作品中最著名的是第三號(皇帝)四重奏, 其中的第二樂章是一組從他最近寫給偉大的奧匈帝國皇帝法蘭茲二世(皇帝頌歌, Kaiserlied)的變奏曲.

明暗對比四重奏是由俄羅斯小提琴家伊布拉吉莫娃, 西班牙小提琴家帕布羅·爾南·班內迪(Pablo Hernan Benedi), 瑞典小提琴家艾米莉.霍隆德(Emilie Hornlund)和法國大提琴家克萊兒.特里翁等四人創立於2005年.

The Chiaroscuro Quartet made their first appearance on BIS with acclaimed recordings of Joseph Haydn’s Sun Quartets, Op. 20, described in The Strad as ‘period-instrument performances of the utmost subtlety and refinement’. The Op. 20 quartets are widely regarded as a mile-stone in the history of the genre. When Chiaroscuros now return to Haydn, it is with his last complete set of quartets, begun in 1796 when he was 64 years old.

The Six String Quartets, Op. 76, form one of the most renowned of Haydn's sets of quartets, and carry the stamp of their maker: No other set of eighteenth-century string quartets is so diverse, or so unconcerned with the norms of the time. In the words of Haydn’s friend and contemporary Charles Burney ‘they are full of invention, fire, good taste and new effects’. On the present disc, the first of two, we hear the first three quartets, including the ‘Fifths’ quartet (No. 2) so named after the falling perfect fifths with which it begins. The most famous of the set – and possibly of all Haydn quartets – is No. 3, however: the ‘Emperor’ quartet with its second movement: a set of variations on the ‘Kaiserlied’ which Haydn had recently composed to the greater glory of the Austrian Emperor Franz II.

The Chiaroscuro Quartet was formed in 2005 by the violinists Alina Ibragimova (Russia) and Pablo Hernan Benedí (Spain), the Swedish violist Emilie Hörnlund and cellist Claire Thirion from France.